Please only vote ONCE in each of the two polls below:
Which story should appear in the "Best of" volume: "Spindleshanks" or "The Road of Pins"?
"The Road of Pins"
28(57.1%)
"Spindleshanks"
21(42.9%)
Which story should appear in the "Best of" volume: "Breakfast in the House of the Rising Sun" or "Layfaette"?
"Lafeyette (Murder Ballad No. 2)"
17(37.0%)
"Breakfast in the House of the Rising Sun (Murder Ballad No. 1)"
29(63.0%)
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Yes exactly! Only I feel that way about just about all of it. I had such a strong vision of the story that by the end, where she ejects the tape and Scooby Doo comes on, I swear I could just about smell the room and feel carpet under my toes.
But I am interested in why it apparently has to be one rather than both.
It's sort of strange. "The Road of Pins" is essentially the story I set out to write when I wrote "Spindleshanks." And so I can't really justify using both, even though probably no one but me sees the thematic similarities.
And then there's the question of the "bad" or "collapsing" relationships they're both in when it happens. But then again, desire and its decay are always recurring themes--validly, wonderfully so. They're the wound that keeps on giving.
I've always wondered, though--do you see both creative characters as being genuinely blocked/having lost their muse, and the manifestations come from that blocked creativity welling up in ways they can't understand? Or do you think they've intersected with something entirely other which mirrors their frustration?
The latter. No causal connection.
They're the wound that keeps on giving.
Very good line.
Have you read Joel Lane's 'The Lost District', Caitlin?
I haven't, no.